W. Averell Harriman on Tour During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman in suit in the center of the photograph. He is standing with several unidentified workers. The location may be Stalingrad where he visited the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.